The New York the postcards leave out
101 lesser-known islands, ruins, cemeteries, tunnels and film locations across the five boroughs. Pick a dot on the map and find out why it is worth the detour.
The map of hidden places
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Eldridge Street Synagogue
Eldridge Street Synagogue · a sealed sanctuary reborn
Historic Richmond Town
Historic Richmond Town · a Staten Island village in time
Kreischer House
Kreischer House · Queen Anne mansion of a Staten Island brick family
Morris–Jumel Mansion
Morris–Jumel Mansion · Washington’s 1776 headquarters
North Brother Island
North Brother Island · abandoned quarantine hospital in the East River
Roosevelt Island
Roosevelt Island · from prison island to a car-light city neighborhood
Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower
Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower · Brooklyn’s clock tower with a banking hall like a cathedral
Steinway Mansion
Steinway Mansion · a 19th-century villa hidden in Astoria
Filmed here
Films and series shot at these places in New York City. Walk where the cameras stood.
Eldridge Street Synagogue
Eldridge Street Synagogue · a sealed sanctuary reborn
Fort Totten
Fort Totten · unfinished fort, neo-Gothic Castle and bay views
Fort Wadsworth
Fort Wadsworth · Staten Island’s harbor fortress on The Narrows
Historic Richmond Town
Historic Richmond Town · a Staten Island village in time
Explore by borough
All places
- Alice Austen House
- Baron Hirsch Cemetery
- Barren Island
- Bartow-Pell Mansion
- Battery Weed
- Bayard-Condict Building
- Bennett Building
- Beth Hamedrash Hagodol
- Beth Olam Cemetery
- Blackwell Island Light
- Brooklyn Army Terminal
- Brooklyn Navy Yard
- Calvary Cemetery
- Castle Williams
- Cobble Hill Tunnel
- Conference House
- Domino Sugar Refinery
- Dyckman House
- Edgar Allan Poe Cottage
- Eldridge Street Synagogue
- Ellis Island Hospital
- Floyd Bennett Field
- Fort Hamilton
- Fort Lafayette
- Fort Schuyler
- Fort Tilden
- Fort Totten
- Fort Wadsworth
- Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
- Green-Wood Cemetery
- Hall of Fame for Great Americans
- Hart Island
- Hell Gate Bridge
- Hendrick I. Lott House
- High Bridge
- Hispanic Society of America
- Historic Richmond Town
- HMS Liverpool
- Hoffman Island
- Irish Hunger Memorial
- Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
- James Watson House
- Jeffrey’s Hook Light (Little Red Lighthouse)
- John J. Harvey
- Joralemon Street Tunnel
- Kehila Kedosha Janina
- Kreischer House
- Loew’s Valencia Theatre
- Long Island Motor Parkway
- Lorelei Fountain
- Lorillard Snuff Mill
- Louis Armstrong House
- Malbone Street Wreck
- Marine Air Terminal
- Merchant’s House Museum
- Mill Rock
- Minton’s Playhouse
- Morris–Jumel Mansion
- Coignet Stone Company Building
- New York Cancer Hospital
- New York City Marble Cemetery
- New York Kouros
- New York Marble Cemetery
- New York State Pavilion
- North Brother Island
- North River Tunnels
- Old Goethals Bridge
- Parachute Jump
- Paradise Theater
- Pepsi-Cola Sign
- Pomander Walk
- Prison Ship Martyrs’ Monument
- Prospect Cemetery
- Quarters A, Brooklyn Navy Yard
- Robbins Reef Light
- Roosevelt Island
- Sailors’ Snug Harbor
- Seaview Hospital
- Seguine Mansion
- Smallpox Hospital
- Sniffen Court Historic District
- South Brother Island
- St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery
- St. Nicholas Historic District (Striver’s Row)
- Steinway Mansion
- Swinburne Island
- The Octagon
- Trinity Church Cemetery
- TWA Flight Center
- U Thant Island
- Van Cortlandt House Museum
- Vander Ende–Onderdonk House
- Vanderbilt Family Cemetery and Mausoleum
- Voorlezer’s House
- Weeksville Heritage Center
- Weir Greenhouse
- Westbeth Artists Community
- Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower
- Woodlawn Cemetery
- Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead
- Wyckoff House